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8 Mar 01
Liverpool City Council will once again set the country's highest council tax, despite freezing tax levels for a third successive year.
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1 Mar 01
The Treasury is to raid its coffers for around £137m in emergency aid for farmers as foot and mouth disease spreads across the country.
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1 Mar 01
A black and minority ethnic (BME) housing association this week emerged as the largest single beneficiary of the Housing Corporation's investment programme for 2001/02.
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1 Mar 01
Londoners' major gripe with their councils' services is their complaints procedures, according to a new survey.
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1 Mar 01
Northern Ireland Assembly members have severely criticised pollution control in the province's rivers which gives polluters free rein.
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1 Mar 01
Partnerships UK, the Treasury-owned body set up to oversee joint ventures between the public sector and the business community, is itself to become a public-private partnership.
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1 Mar 01
The government has been urged to put more resources into primary care in order to improve services to patients and bolster GPs' morale.
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22 Feb 01
Whitehall's senior mandarins are likely to face a barrage of criticism in the next few weeks from a report that slates their race relations record.
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22 Feb 01
Patients and nurses will play a key role in assessing the quality of non-clinical services in NHS trusts under new Department of Health guidance.
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22 Feb 01
Bristol's Labour councillors may be dismayed after the city's residents shot their education spending plans to pieces last week in the first budget referendum to be held in a major city.
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22 Feb 01
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has given the clearest signal yet that if Labour wins a second term in government it will set up elected regional assemblies.
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22 Feb 01
The probation service must balance conflicting local and national demands on its resources if it is to improve its services, according to the Audit Commission.
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22 Feb 01
The Local Government Association has called on European institutions to tackle accusations of 'top-down' decision-making by renegotiating relations with other tiers of government.
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22 Feb 01
Prime Minister Tony Blair has pledged that his government will 'power ahead' with its 'fundamental' shake-up of public services if Labour wins a second term in office.
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22 Feb 01
New checks to stop people fraudulently seeking free eye tests and vouchers have been announced by health minister Lord Hunt.
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15 Feb 01
The government tried to face down a barrage of criticism this week over its plans to 'transform' the secondary school system.
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15 Feb 01
The code of conduct for government ministers should be beefed up and lines of accountability strengthened, according to a cross-party committee of MPs.
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15 Feb 01
With millions enjoying Valentine's Day blow-outs, February 14 may not have been the perfect day to warn the population about the dangers of obesity.
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15 Feb 01
E-minister Patricia Hewitt has defended the decision to allocate only £30m towards the government's goal of extensive fast broadband Internet access across Britain by 2005.
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15 Feb 01
Local government leaders are breathing a sigh of relief following publication of the government's long-awaited white paper on the knowledge economy on February 13.
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15 Feb 01
Sir Michael Bichard, permanent secretary at the Department for Education and Employment, has announced unexpectedly that he will leave Whitehall at the end of May.
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15 Feb 01
Unison has slammed a decision by Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council to cut 450 jobs as 'unnecessary, incompetent and destructive'.
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15 Feb 01
Crisis-ridden Hackney Council has launched a fraud investigation following the discovery of irregular cash transfers between bank accounts, Public Finance has learned.
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15 Feb 01
London's fire authority has agreed in principle to loan Transport for London £15m to help it meet a potential budget shortfall later this year.
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15 Feb 01
The director-general of the Prison Service, Martin Narey, has told MPs that his recent threat to resign was an attempt to galvanise governors he felt were slow to instigate reform.
8 Mar 01Liverpool City Council will once again set the country's highest council tax, despite freezing tax levels for a third successive year.
